I was left standing at the microphone 6 at the 2018 Southern Baptist Convention during the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) report to the Southern Baptist Convention in Dallas. Russell Moore, president of the ERLC, gave that report and reminded messengers of the various ways he and his…
I had the privilege of serving on the Southern Baptist Convention’s Calvinism Advisory Committee under the leadership of David Dockery and Frank Page. The statement that resulted from our work has been widely distributed and analyzed. Today, the Executive Committee of the SBC released the video of panel discussion…
In 1996 Founders Press began with the publication of my little booklet, From the Protestant Reformation to the Southern Baptist Convention: What Hath Geneva to Do with Nashville? I wrote it in part to respond to the widely-held assumption (and often-repeated refrain) that “Southern Baptists have never been Calvinists.”…
Recently, 9Marks asked that question to six pastors: three Presbyterian, one Methodist, one Bible Church and one Baptist. Yours truly is the Baptist. We were given 150-250 words with which to craft an answer. My response is copied below. To read the rest, check out the 9Marks Pastors’ Forum….
I love Tabletalk magazine and the work of Ligonier Ministries. RC Sproul has served me in multiple ways through his writing and teaching. I have read Tabletalk since its early days when it was a 2 color 8.5 x 11 publication. Editor Burk Parsons has become treasured friend and…
Andrew Fuller Andrew Fuller is (1754-1815) one of my Baptist heroes. His personal life, theological convictions and missionary zeal have challenged and instructed me since I first learned about him over 30 years ago. Recently, my friend, Michael Haykin, Professor of Church History and Biblical Spirituality and Director of…
Over the last several years I have had multiple opportunities to reflect on the composition of the Southern Baptist family of which I am a part. I’ve seen that composition change significantly from 1978, when I began to pastor my first church, to the present. Gone are those who…
The 2012 Southern Baptist Convention that ended yesterday was a bit of a whirlwind for me. I arrived with little sleep in the bank and left with even less. All in all, I am very encouraged by the spirit of the meeting and what it hopefully signals about the…
Preamble (part B) Though I am tempted to work through the Preamble statement by statement I do not want to get bogged down in this part of the document to the neglect or deemphasis of its theological affirmations and denials….
SBC Voices has posted the text of “A Statement of Traditional Southern Baptist Understanding of God’s Plan of Salvation” on their site. In the next few posts, I want to interact with the document in hopes of fulfilling the spirit of our late brother,…